Donnie Darko

Richard Kelly's debut feature film has slowly gained a cult following since its release. Featuring a breakout performance by a young Jake Gyllenhaal—not to mention his real-life and onscreen sister, Maggie—Darko is one of those films that has been fiercely debated over the years for its extreme ambiguity; even Kelly's director's cut is bafflingly eccentric and no more clear than the original. Peppered with allegories about adolescence and the emotionally disturbed, and featuring a wide array of metaphysical, philosophical and religious ideas, Darko is a coming-of-age film for the genre fan.